SYDNEY (Reuters) – Feedback made by India gamers KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya which were extensively condemned as sexist had been “inappropriate” and never supported by their workforce mates, captain Virat Kohli stated on Friday.

Batsman Rahul and all-rounder Pandya have been closely criticised in India and on social media for feedback made on a tv present earlier this week.

The Board of Management for Cricket in India (BCCI) have requested the pair to clarify the feedback and Pandya has apologised. Each, nonetheless, might nonetheless face sanctions.

“From the Indian cricket workforce perspective, any inappropriate feedback which might be made in that state of affairs are one thing that we undoubtedly don’t assist,” Kohli advised reporters on Friday forward of the primary one-dayer towards Australia.

“The 2 involved gamers felt what has gone mistaken and so they have understood the magnitude. It has to hit anybody arduous, they’ll undoubtedly perceive the issues that haven’t gone proper.

“These are purely particular person opinions … we undoubtedly, because the Indian cricket workforce, don’t assist views like that and that has been communicated.”

Kohli stated he was not conscious of any sanctions being handed down however the facet would adapt if the pair had been dominated out of the three-match sequence.